W
hat you said of the late Charles Skinner Matthews
has set me to my recollections; but I have not been able to turn up any thing which would do for the purposed Memoir of his brother, — even if he had previously done enough during his life to sanction the introduction of anecdotes so merely personal. He was, however, a very extraordinary man, and would have been a great one. No one ever succeeded in a more surpassing degree than he did as far as he went. He was indolent, too; but whenever he stripped, he overthrew all antagonists. His conquests will be found registered at Cambridge, particularly his
Downing
one, which was hotly and highly contested, and yet easily
won
. Hobhouse was his most intimate friend, and can tell you more of him than any man.